This week, I released updates to my VGBAnext and Colem emulators for Android. VGBAnext update fixes a crash in the State Exchange (feature that lets users trade their saved gameplay states) and adds cheats for 11 more games, including SD Gundam and Samurai Jack. ColEm has now been tested and optimized for Nvidia Shield AndroidTV box.

Both emulators reenable the action bar on devices with physical MENU buttons. Some Cyanogen users complained that their devices misreport MENU button as "present", effectively disabling all menus. This issue should be gone inmy new emulator releases, but if it still happens to you, let me know.

"MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.

MAME is free. Its source code is free. Selling either is not allowed. "

This week, I updated the iNES emulator for Android and released a new major version of Speccy for Windows, Android, and Linux.

Both Android emulators have been tested and optimized on the new Nvidia SHIELD AndroidTV device. Pressing both thumbsticks during gameplay should bring up the menu on AndroidTV and other gamepad-only devices.
I also reenabled the action bar on devices with physical MENU buttons.
Apparently, some Cyanogen builds misreport the MENU button as "present", which made the menu completely inaccessible.

The new Speccy comes with the Instant Replay feature, also found in my other emulators. By pressing the REPLAY button, you instantly rewind your gameplay 10-15 seconds into the past, letting you avoid careless death in a game :) The Direct3D full screen support has also been significantly improved in the latest Speccy.

Libretro is a simple but powerful development interface that allows for the easy creation of emulators, games and multimedia applications that can plug straight into any libretro-compatible frontend. This development interface is open to others so that they can run these pluggable emulator and game cores also in their own programs or devices.

This week, I updated VGBAnext and VGB emulators for Android, also releasing free versions of these emulators for Windows and Linux.

The Android releases have been tested and optimized for the latest Nvidia SHIELD AndroidTV device. Pressing both gamepad thumbsticks will now open the menu, something many AndroidTV users had problems with. I have also added cheats for more GBA and GB games.

The Windows releases switch to Direct3D textures for rendering the screen and include the "Stretch Full Screen" option. I have also revised the full screen initialization code, so full screen should work on more types of video hardware.

"AmiKit is a freeware compilation of more than 300 pre-installed Amiga programs. An integrated emulator enables the user to experience this high-end AmigaOS configuration on Windows, Mac OS or Linux systems."